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External Hard Drive Stresstesting?

Post Date: 2011-01-08
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    Posted: 08 Jan 2011 at 3:08pm
How would one go about stresstesting an external hard drive to insure that it will last for a few years? Would simply formating, saving massive amounts of files all at once, and formating again and repeating the process a few times over a period of 24 hours or longer show how reliable the hd will be over the years? I ask this because I recently just bought 2 and I want to know how I can make sure they're not lemons since I have important files I want to save on them.  

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There is no real way, it could pass the test and then fail next month.

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no way to test it at all, keep multiple backups (hard copies) of sensitive data, thats how you keep it safe
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